Environmental Science
High School Course
This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts of environmental science, pointing the way to the ways in which we can safeguard resources, manage waste, reduce pollution, protect the food chain, adapt to changing fuel needs and champion our planet on all levels - from the conscientious management of the smallest household to the protection of the largest biospheres.
This High School Course is also offered as part of the General Online Diploma program.
Credits: 1 Unit
Course ID: SCG03
Course Area: Science
Course Type: General
Study Method: Online
Course Outline:
- Unit 1:
- Lesson 1: Identifying main environmental factors
- Lesson 2: The scientific method
- Lesson 3: Environmental specialists
- Lesson 4: Observation and record-keeping - past and present
- Lesson 5: Historic environmental accidents and scientific methods
- Lesson 6: Biotic versus abiotic
- Lesson 7: Earth divisions
- Lesson 8: Hierarchy of biology
- Lesson 9: Population versus community
- Lesson 10: Biodiversity
- Unit 2:
- Lesson 11: Domestic vs. wild
- Lesson 12: Environmental invaders
- Lesson 13: The water cycle
- Lesson 14: Acid rain
- Lesson 15: Ground water pollution
- Lesson 16: The carbon cycle
- Lesson 17: The greenhouse effect and global warming
- Lesson 18: Air pollution
- Lesson 19: The code of life - DNA
- Lesson 20: The food chain
- Unit 3:
- Lesson 21: Food chain pollution
- Lesson 22: Classification of living things
- Lesson 23: Local environmental agencies
- Lesson 24: International environmental concerns
- Lesson 25: Environmental groups and regulatory violations
- Lesson 26: Planning conservation
- Lesson 27: Waste management
- Lesson 28: Composting
- Lesson 29: Space waste
- Lesson 30: Transportation challenges
- Unit 4:
- Lesson 31: The standard electric energy production methods
- Lesson 32: New energy production methods
- Lesson 33: Fuel production and transport problems
- Lesson 34: United States agriculture
- Lesson 35: Modern agriculture and new technology
- Lesson 36: Less pesticides and more IPM
- Lesson 37: Genetically modified organisms
- Lesson 38: Grazing and public land management
- Lesson 39: New environmental uses of corn
- Lesson 40: it's all up to you
Items Provided by Students: None
